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From what I've seen, networking peripherals you can attach to a Pi via USB, or whatever, can't really compete with networking peripherals in routers that are integrated on SoCs/SoMs.

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The suggested NanoPi R6S has two 2.5G ports connected to PCIe and one 1G port built in to the SoC, it doesn't use USB for networking.

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I figure people are using them for router things, like using it as a wireless AP and switch, and the hardware available for those use cases usually fall short of what's available on router SoCs.